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On November 6, the selloff in tech and semiconductor stocks spread from Wall Street to Tokyo, Seoul and Shenzhen. Asian markets lost more than $1 trillion in value, and in South Korea trading had to be halted by the exchange's automation.
By 21:48 Moscow time on November 5, according to CoinGlass, leveraged positions worth more than $1 billion were forcibly closed over 24 hours, and these were mostly bets on growth. There has not been a larger wave since October 28-29, when BTC fell from almost $82,000 to $76,000.
A day after Donald Trump congratulated the market on a record, Wall Street gave back all the gains: on November 5, the S&P 500 fell 3.8%, the Nasdaq Composite - almost 5%. The sell-off was driven by artificial intelligence-related stocks.
The Kalshi platform has launched trading in perpetual futures (a contract with no expiration date that can be held indefinitely) on individual stocks. In the contracts on Apple (AAPL) and Amazon (AMZN), the estimated leverage came out to about 5:1. At the same time, the legal basis on which these instruments exist at all is being challenged in court.
The Capital Markets Alliance, backed by the Cboe exchange, market maker Citadel Securities and the Healthy Markets Association, has filed a lawsuit in the federal court for the Southern District of New York. It demands the annulment of the CFTC decision that on November 3 opened trading in perpetual futures on individual stocks in the US for the first time.
In 24 hours, exchanges forcibly closed $974.8M in positions, and almost 60% of the amount was bets on a decline. BTC gained 4.64% and reached $80,480, ETH rose 6.84% to $2,418.
The crypto market priced in the US midterm election results with gains: BTC rose to $80,500, ETH added almost 6% to $2,433. $469 million in leveraged positions were liquidated in 24 hours.
Coinbase has connected clients of its institutional Prime division to the Deribit platform: crypto options and perpetual futures, which were previously traded mainly outside US regulation, have become available to US funds and companies. The announcement was made on November 4.
The funding rate for Bitcoin perpetual futures on Binance rose to 0.01 — the highest in more than two months. Over the past 24 hours, positions worth over $430M were forcibly closed on the market, mostly longs.
The final eurozone data for October came in weaker than September's: the composite business activity index dropped to 51.7 versus 53.1 a month earlier. The release took place on November 4 at around 12:01 Moscow time.
Block (Jack Dorsey's payment company, founded by the Twitter co-founder, owns the Cash App with Bitcoin purchases) has reached an agreement with the US Department of Justice to pay $764M and close the case over weak anti-money laundering controls. This is more than the company's entire quarterly profit of $566M.
The US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) on Tuesday approved the listing of perpetual futures on individual US stocks. Until now, Americans could trade such contracts only on foreign venues.
US Bitcoin exchange-traded funds (funds through which the asset is bought like an ordinary stock on an exchange) are losing money for the second day in a row, and nearly five billion dollars have left Binance since it resumed operations. BTC, meanwhile, is holding around $76,900.
The Fed's Open Market Committee voted 10 to 2 to keep the rate in the 3.75-4.00% range, but left the possibility of a hike as early as December in its statement. HSBC, in its November 2 currency review, confirmed its view of a strong dollar through 2027, warning that the path there will be bumpy.
Intercontinental Exchange (owner of the New York Stock Exchange) has agreed with Trade[XYZ] to move its Hyperliquid-based perpetual markets into a regulated US framework. Ordinary retail clients will be able to trade round-the-clock contracts on stocks, indices, commodities, currencies and crypto - if regulators give the go-ahead.
In October, positions worth more than $12.5 billion were forcibly closed on the crypto market. This is one of the most destructive months for leveraged trading: instead of the market's usual "Uptober," traders got "Rektober."
On October 30 at around 17:23 MSK, Bitcoin hit a 1.5-month low - that is, the price dropped below all values since mid-September.
Brent added $1.50 (1.32%) and returned to $115.59 per barrel, WTI rose $1.47 to $101.37. The trigger - a statement by Yemeni Houthis that they hit Ras Tanura, the kingdom's largest oil refinery at 550,000 barrels per day, with a ballistic missile. Riyadh has not confirmed the strike.
Today at 15:30 MSK UK Finance Minister John Healey presents his first annual budget, and at 21:00 MSK the Fed will announce its rate. GBP/USD is already at 1.3300 - the lowest since October 19.
Payward, the parent company of the Kraken exchange, is set to become the first operator of perpetual futures on the Hyperliquid blockchain operating under the supervision of the US regulator CFTC. The announcement came out on October 26, 2026; no launch date was given.
On Saturday, Bitcoin fell below $80,000 for the first time since October 15 and in four hours wiped out $404.15M in long positions (bets on price increases) — that's 93% of the total $436.44M in liquidations. Over 24 hours, the market forcibly closed $815.26M across 201,012 traders.
BTC's trip to $85,000 ended in a reversal: from a high of $84,840 the price fell to $81,500, down almost 3%. The trigger did not come from crypto - the market was disappointed by Tesla's earnings report, and $431 million in leveraged positions were wiped out in a day.
Over 30 days through October 19, 6.05 billion XRP were deposited to exchanges - the most since March. Total exchange reserves rose to 11.81 billion tokens, the 99th percentile for the year.
Since the start of October, investors have pulled more than $1 billion from US spot ETFs (exchange-traded funds through which Bitcoin and Ethereum are bought like an ordinary stock). BTC is trading at $81,266 and is 35.54% below its record high of $126,080.
